He who owns the reality of Christ's incarnation, receives most thankfully and adoringly from God the truth of redemption; he, on the contrary, who stumbles at redemption, has not really taken in the incarnation according to God's mind. Here there could not be more, and He would not give less: even "grace upon grace." So on the last day, that great day of the feast (the eighth day, which witnessed of a resurrection glory outside this creation, now to be made good in the power of the Spirit before anything appears to sight), the Lord stands and cries, saying, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." Still, such is the effect on man under law, that he could not take advantage of an adequate remedy. "And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. The call of four fishermen. Jesus heals an invalid on the SabbathHe explains why men must honor the SonJesus promises to take the gospel to the deadMan is resurrected, judged, and assigned his glory by the SonJesus obeys the divine law of witnesses. Osta kirja A Dissertation on Prophecy, Wherein the Coh]rence and Connexion of the Prophecies in Both the Old and New Testament Are Fully Considered; Together with an Explanation of the Revelation of St. John. John 5:39 (KJV) - Forerunner Commentary. John. But this is not the question of grace: not what she was, but what He is who was there to win and bless her, manifesting God and the Father withal, practically and in detail. They wonder, as they had murmured before (John 7:12-15); but Jesus shows that the desire to do God's will is the condition of spiritual understanding. Indeed, it is the total eclipse, not merely of law and remedial mercies, but even of promised Messianic glory, by everlasting life and resurrection at the last day. He was God. Verse 39. If He judges, it is not without full warning. The same God who did not leave Himself without witness among the heathen, doing good, and giving from heaven rain and fruitful seasons, did not fail, in the low estate of the Jews, to work by providential power at intervals; and, by the troubled waters of Bethesda, invited the sick, and healed the first who stepped in of whatever disease he had. Except one were born of water and of the Spirit, he could not enter the kingdom of God. John 7:37) It is not a question of eating the bread of God, or, when Christ died, of eating His flesh and drinking His blood.